Fin Dwyer
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first heard May 2026
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So just even on
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that instance might be a good one to kind of pick apart.
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We've already talked about how a lot of detail about what happened on that night is not fully understood today.
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Part of it is because a reticence to talk, you know, among some members, but also a huge issue in this case, and something that you read draw out in your book, is language and the linguistic difference between this community and maybe certainly the authorities in Dublin.
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And in a recent i i interview I talked to Sir Nicholas Wolfe and he talked about how by this point, the late nineteenth century, Irish speakers are at a severe disadvantage in Irish society.
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But could you give listeners then a picture of the linguistic makeup?
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I don't know if that's the correct term, but like basically who speaks Irish, who speaks English in this community, because that does become a key factor if people don't fully understand the people they're talking to, or as we see later, people are accused if they don't fully understand what's happening around them.
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It becomes a huge issue at the time, obviously m most importantly, but then
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Decades later, as historians go back through these the surviving records, there's a lot of questions about, you know, where this information came from and and did the people writing it down fully understand the community and community members and the people essentially at the heart of this case who would have known the truth or would have been able to shed greater light on it at least.
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I might just pull back from the specifics of the case.
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It just I think something that people today would find surprising is how fast the whole process moves in the in the late nineteenth century.
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It's not unique to Mam Trass in the cases.
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Move very fast once the legal machinery starts to move.
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This is all done and dusted essentially in the space of a couple of months.
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You've already outlined
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you know, reasons why if this happened today it would take probably years and much longer than a normal case.
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But can you just give listeners a sense of how a murder case, a murder trial, would work in the nineteenth century?
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What you know, if and we'll talk about the accused in a minute, but what could they expect, the process that they would face?
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We might talk then move on to actually the ten accused, the three what are called approvers at the time, these men who testify as to what they saw and actually what's quite important is what they didn't see.
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In terms of a murder trial, we're talking about the people who actually carried out the murder.
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